I was sceptical of Pioneer Woman’s recipes, until I made the roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
Oh, my lord.
And the onion strings.
Pardon–drool on keyboard.
Nothing wrong with that! And thanks for making me feel not so alone!
The only booze I have on hand at the moment are various bottles of shiraz/syrah and about a 1/3 of a bottle of kahlua in the fridge. The kahlua has pretty much outstayed its welcome as it is just too sweet and overpowering for my mixing tastes. I’ve had my fill of white russians and such, and I’ve gotten tired of mixing it with soy milk when the white russian ingredients aren’t on-hand. But, last night when I was desperate for something refreshing in this damn endless heat spell we’ve been having, I mixed it with pellegrino on the rocks and that was actually pretty good once I diluted it enough.
Anyone else mistake hummus for humans, or was that just me?
Anyhow, onto the topic at hand.
I’ll occasionally eat ketchup cheese and cracker sandwiches. Sometimes I’ll toast the bread, or melt the cheese.
I like to take regular soda crackers and dip them in pizza sauce. I’ll also do this with ketchup if I’m out of pizza sauce.
I absolutely love a big bowl of strawberry jelly, bacon, and cheese grits. It sounds disgusting, it certainly isn’t healthy, but it sure is good. Especially at 4 am in the middle of winter. It’s especially good if you use chunks of velveeta.
Anyone for a cold spaghetti sandwich, on buttered white bread, with salt?
What? I think we’re going to need a link here…
Unless they’re made from real penguins ::shudder::
I forgot about this until I had one this weekend. Peanut butter (super chunk, natch), Nutella, sliced strawberries, and a drizzle of agave nectar. Mmmmmm. You can add banana slices if you want.
And one of my friends makes grilled peanut butter, Nutella & banana sandwiches on thick French bread.
For those who enjoy peanut butter and mayo sandwiches, you’re really missing out unless you also add Tabasco sauce. The vinegary hit combined with the natural sweetness of the PB is wonderful. And PB and mayo are great on wheat bread and/or with chunky PB.
Once when I was a little kid with my little kid logic, I made the assumption that if PB and mayo was tasty, then so must a combination of their natural counterparts. Long story short - I don’t recommend mustard and jelly sandwiches.
Chopped dill pickles and Heinz yellow mustard in my cottage cheese.
Salami, cream cheese and dill pickle sandwiches w/mustard.
Dill pickles w/mustard.
do you…want to get married tomorrow? 
Gyros. I live in the heart of a city, so a decent one is never more than a brisk 5 minute walk away. A normally social person, who enjoys sharing meals, I go for a gyro fix alone. Once I ate something different when I had a gyro craving, and it was excruciating. I don’t attempt to read, think, make eye contact, or otherwise participate in society when I’m deliciously devouring a gyro. Yum 
Childhood comfort food that for some reason makes everyone else go “eww”:
Plenty of butter and cheese between two slices of crispbread. Press the slices together, then split the sandwich in half along its length. This is done only so you can dunk it in a cup of hot chocolate. It’s slimy, chewy and insanely good, especially when the chocolate is really hot so the cheese melts.
A drunk buddy of mine heated a box of pizza rolls on a shovel over a gas fireplace.
Weren’t me, can’t recommend it.
For dinner tonight I ate a grilled Boca burger with Bacon Salt, which in and of itself isn’t so bad*.
But I put Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit on it too, which might be. (Those not aware: Famous Dave’s is a BBQ chain; I think finding any meatless item on their menu would be impossible).
It was so goddamned tasty. And good for my ticker.
*really, they’re good, especially with Bacon Salt. I say this as a dedicated meat-eater.
Famous Dave’s sauces are fantastic. I was hugely disappointed when my local store took the Sweet & Zesty off the shelf; only Rich & Sassy and Devil’s Spit are there now. Both are good, but S&Z is my favorite.
If you can’t find it otherwise, I’d be more than happy to send some to you, Bosstone. It’s the blue label stuff, right? Email’s in my profile.
Some people eat a tablespoon or two of peanut butter for quick energy, right? I hate peanut butter, so… it’s Nutella straight out of the jar.
One my favorite things to eat is macaroni and cheese. Yeah, I like the kind you’re thinking of, but that’s far too much work. Here’s my recipe:
Kaitie’s "Mac and Cheese"
A hefty bowl full of hot, cooked macaroni.
A shitload of shredded cheese. Like seriously, two handfuls at least.
Some butter
Layer that shit, mix it up, and enjoy. My arteries are going to thank me someday.
I live on Diet Mt. Dew. Live on it. Today I drank 72 ounces of it.
Susan
I love threads like these. I usually find every savory concoction revolting, while the sweet ones inspire me (except anything + bananas=blech).
I ate a lot of questionable things when I was a kid, which is odd since I was one of the pickiest eaters ever. Some highlights:
-Cool Ranch Doritos inside a peanut butter sandwich
-Peanut butter sandwich dipped in milk
-Random baking ingredients individually and uncooked, when there was no junk food in the house. This includes the obvious like chocolate chips and coconut flake from the freezer, but also flour and even baking powder.
-A generous portion of Kemps ice cream with malt powder. In a 3:1 ratio. And don’t mix it in - the sawdust-y, stick-to-your-tongue texture is a wonderful complement to the smooth, creamy coldness. I still always ask for “extra malt” when I get caramel malts anywhere.
-Creamette pasta shells (the small ones), cooked al dente, poured into a bowl, mixed with Country Crock margerine, skim milk, salt, and a large quantity of Kraft fakey-gross parmesan cheese (in the green container). I ate this every day during summer vacations.
-Graham crackers spread with Country Crock margerine
-French fries dipped in chocolate shake (doesn’t seem to be much of a confession, since everybody’s doing it)
-Peanut butter toast with a thick, crunchy layer of sugar
More recent food confessions:
-I really felt like eating something sweet and creamy, but I refrain from buying ice cream to have in the freezer because I lack self control. After scrounging around, the best I could come up with was a can of sweetened condensed milk. I ate some of it (with a baby spoon for some reason), poured the rest into a container and refrigerated it, then proceeded to eat all of it over the course of four days. It made me feel gross, and I wanted to just dump it down the drain, but for some reason I really needed to finish that can.
-I eat popcorn for dinner a couple times a month. With no butter - just a bit of salt, or a mixture of salt, garlic powder, pepper, and smoked paprika.
Ha ha ha!! I just drank that! Except, I don’t mix, I chase. Gets me drunker.
A & W is the best diet root beer for anything!
Joe
I’m not lying here. I really used to eat this, and would again :
One or two pouches of cooked Ramen (usually chicken flavor), mostly (but not completely) drained
One can tuna in water, with water still in it
one generous spoonful chunky peanut butter
Lots of shredded cheese
handful of saltines, crumbled up
Mix and eat.
It’s really, really filling, really, really fattening, and really, really good. More salt than a fricking salt shaker, too…
I also love browning up a pound or so of ground beef, mixing it with a lot of shredded cheese, and just eating it with a spoon.
When I was really poor, I used to eat saltines dipped in country crock - I’d get the huge tub o’Crock, and keep it out, because I didn’t have a fridge, so it would scoop easily with a saltine.
Joe